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GUY
is known the world over for his portrayal of Lieutenant Gruber,
one of the original and enduring characters of over 90 episodes
of ’Allo ’Allo! which is one of the most successful comedy series
the B.B.C. has ever produced and is still shown in more than 80
countries.
Guy
was born in Manhattan to an American father and an English mother.
He was educated in England and trained for the stage at the Webber
Douglas Academy in London where he won the Rodney Millington Award
for his performance as The Emcee in Cabaret. In a career of some
30 years he has become a household name in the U.K. both in theatre
and television.
In recent years he has spent much of his time working in the film
industry in Los Angeles but is now based in London where he juggles two careers - actor and writer/producer. With his producing partner Nicholas Irons he has a film in development - a British romantic caper/comedy called "The Day the Train Stopped" written by Ashley Nunn.
Guy
made his first London appearance in the highly acclaimed Cowardy
Custard at the Mermaid Theatre. Other London credits include Off
the Peg, Nickleby and Me, Toad of Toad Hall, The Frogs, Wealth,
The Biograph Girl and Don’t Dress for Dinner. He has also appeared
several times in cabaret at The Ritz. He has worked with many
of the leading English repertory companies including Coventry,
Leicester, Brighton, Windsor, Oxford and The Bristol Old Vic,
and did six major tours with Jonathan Lynn’s Cambridge Theatre
Company in a repertoire mainly of the classics including The Master
Builder, The Relapse, An Inspector Calls and Uncle Vanya. He twice
toured Australia with the stage show of ’Allo ’Allo which also
enjoyed a record-breaking U.K. tour and long West End runs both
at the Prince of Wales and the London Palladium.
Television
work in London includes I Claudius, Dr. Who, Life at Stake, Z
Cars, Softly Softly, The Secret Army, You Rang M’Lord?, The Brittas
Empire, Doctors and of course ’Allo ’Allo! In LA: Seinfeld, Martial
Law, Diagnosis Murder (with Dick van Dyke), Zoe, Babylon 5, When
Billie Beat Bobbie (with Holly Hunter and Goldie Hawn), That’s
My Bush (with the writers of South Park), The Agency and Startrek:
Enterprise.
Guy’s
experience and contacts in all aspects of film-making are widespread.
Features include The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, Great Harry
and Jane, Lost Highway (written and directed by David Lynch),
Leprechaun 4, Bug, Return to the Secret Garden, The Second Front
(with Todd Field), Megiddo (with Michael York), Vlad (with
Billy Zane), Provoked and Pirates of the Caribbean (with Johnny
Depp and Geoffrey Rush)
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